He said he “appreciated the stands of the Security Council and the United Nations in their support for Iraq in its war on terror.”

MP Mohamad Al-Shabki, a member of the foreign relations committee of the Iraqi parliament, told Asharq Al-Awsat that “it is in the interest of the world to stand with Iraq in its war against terror, because terrorism is a global problem and therefore what Iraq is doing now in confronting this armed group [ISIS] is on behalf of the world as a whole.”

“Al Qaeda strikes every day in different places such as Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and even Russia, and this needs much more than making statements,” he added, calling for an international conference to be held “in order to put forward specific mechanisms” to confront the organization.

The speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Osama Al Nujaifi, is to visit the United States later next week to “discuss the current situation in Iraq, especially in Anbar,” according to a statement by his office.

The statement said Nujaifi will “discuss with policy makers, institutions and strategic studies centers, the issue of democratic change in Iraq.”

Khalidi said: “The Anbar crisis will be at the top of the agenda, especially as what is taking place is not a new problem but something which we had warned about, because it is a result of wrong policies followed by the Iraqi government in dealing with the Sunni constituent in general, and dealing with the protests when the government removed the tents and arrested MP Ahmad Al Alwani.”

“Nujaifi will present the U.S. administration with comprehensive visions of effective solutions for the crisis,” he added. “[I expect] the Americans to intervene strongly in the coming period in Iraqi affairs after losing control, which threatens the project in Iraq for which they expended lot of effort.”

The U.N. Secretary-General is expected to arrive in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday, Kurdish sources have announced, to hold meetings with the President of the Kurdistan Region, Massoud Barzani, and Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, to discuss the political situation in Iraq.